Hi everyone
Another bird picture doing the rounds on blogs and Facebook. This one is labelled as a Blue Fairy Wren of Australia. Any ideas as to what species it actually is??
http://jackmarinokids.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/blue-fairy-wren.html
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Here is a link http://ibc.lynxeds.com/photo/masked-gnatcatcher-polioptila-dumicola/male-perched-twig. Regards, Alan
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I think it is definitely a Masked Gnatcatcher. I tried the same thing as Allen Chartier tried with another pic of a Masked Gnatcatcher and got basically the same result. If anyone is interested let me know and I will send them the pic.
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Turdus interneticus?
Carl Clifford
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Dare I mention fig-parrots?
Eric Vanderduys
Well done Allen!
A while back there was a very cute photo of a family of Blue Jays going around. Only trouble was, the kids were exactly the same colour as the adults, but a lot smaller! In fact of course, kids are a different colour but the same size!
So welcome to our new world! Just as technological advances bring us to the point where it is now vastly easier to see what a bird really looked like, unfiltered by our personal prejudices, we now have to face the fact that we can no longer trust anything someone shows us! It’s like a metaphor for the whole Internet. Just as it opened up unprecedented channels of communication and information, it abruptly filled up with nonsense!
Oh well…
Cheers, Chris.
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Allen,
That looks like a perfect match! A google image search indeed shows the bird but obviously in grey/gray (e.g. http://www.pbase.com/james_lowen/image/82538827). The alula and black mask are diagnostic.
I am flabbergasted by the efforts of someone using photoshop to deliberately mislead people.
Well done, and thanks for your help!
Cheers Anthony
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Nope, bill shape, tail shape, mask shape and overall jizz don’t match any of the suggestions (Common Yellowthroat, European Penduline Tit, African Blue Flycatcher). Michael’s Malurus photoshopensis is the closest match.
Nikolas
With African Blue Flycatcher thrown in?
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Looks like a ‘photoshopped’ Common Yellowthroat from the US.
Tom
Anthony
It looks like a Photoshoped, blued up Penduline Tit from Europe.
Greg
It is no species at all, no fairywrens look like this. Perhaps it is a new species, Malurus photshopensis Regards, Michael Ramsey
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A google image search did manage to find a less bright version of the photo. I don’t know if this is the original, or a real bird.
http://media-cache-ec6.pinterest.com/192/92/b1/e6/92b1e6e82329068203d5fd09da5e1313.jpg
Jeremy
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Looks like a ‘photoshopped’ Common Yellowthroat from the US.
Tom